What continues to scare me are the numbers of people that still insist how awesome Google services are. Threads about email? "Just switch everything over to Gmail." Hosting? "Use Google Apps, it's awesome." Photos? "Use Picasa.." Phones? "Oh, get an Android phone. Apple is evil."
Google blew past evil and kept on going. They just did it right under everybody's nose.
There's a difference between goofy fake name accounts and a nickname, or in the case of a lot of people I know.. "name that identifies me to my friends but I still need to be hidden from the general public."
Friendster was just getting filled with crap..Ironically, Twitter is full of fake accounts, and they can be some rather popular ones.
Google is a complete fucking pile of FAIL when it comes to anything related to customer support. They don't fix spam problems and spammers have been flocking to gmail/googlemail for ages now because Google actively protects them by hiding origin IP headers.
Then they let users add stuff to Google maps, and guess what? IT's becoming a spam hole thanks to the hoards of Avon reps & home "Scentsy" businesses. Even in my sparsely populated area, i'm seeing several worthless mommy-biz entries.
"Edit: Actually, apparently Alexis had this to say[Gizmodo]: He is absolutely not a founding member. We acquired his company in December, 6 months after Steve and I launched reddit."
"Switch has apparently investigated alternative power sources such as solar power and the possibility of recycling the heat generated by its equipment into energy, but neither methods are cost-effective or space-efficient enough at the moment."
no new added value. Unless I like a bunch of anime bullshit and cartoons, and childrens programming like the Veggie Tales and stuff. Oh, and B-rated direct to video shit too.
Who do I really blame for this? The greedy motherfuckers at the movie studios. They're the rat bastards we should be directing rage at. Netflix is simply a delivery mechanism.
Good luck getting anything with a peanut in it on most airlines these days. They all yanked them because of our ridiculous fear that children will drop dead if there's a single peanut on the floor. (CDC stats show that the number of people that die from food allergies each year is actually very very low. Even lower for children.. but don't try to get stats past the mommybloggers, for they will all have stories about how their friends kid Kayley dropped dead when someone walked into the room with a pb&j.
and they're using all of the Democrats that they've bought off. Hollywood = Democrat. Democrats = the ones pushing crap laws these days about "copyrights" and making it a felony to have a video camera in a movie theater.
They're not even trying to hide it anymore. Five RIAA lawyers placed in cabinet positions by Obama? FIVE of them. Even Bush didn't obviously suck up to one trade group like this administration has.
I have to agree with you. Aside from "It's not Facebook" and the usual "herp derp Google skeet skeet skeet" reactions, I'm not seeing any huge features in Google+ that would make me want to switch.
The UI isn't that great, and it really is pretty confusing.
I think that in 6 months, we'll see a lot of abandoned profiles.. just like other things in the google deadpool.
I blame Outlook users, mostly.Run into quite a few people (usually managers too..hmm) that act like they simply CANNOT function without Outlook, yet they then claim they're so busy and spend 4 hours a day dealing with email.
Sounds like some people are just slow, inefficient lumps.
Good. No decent host would let you ever use a catch-all these days. All a catch-all email address allows nowadays is spam spam and more spam. My personal mail server rejected just over 10,000 emails yesterday alone. All addressed to (randomcrap)@(mydomain.tld)... if I had a catch all, I would have received over 10,000 spam/virus/shit emails. Now multiply that by oodles of customers with many other email addresses, and you're catching *millions* of complete shit emails every day.
This is what so many geeks USED to do, until somehow gmail came along and it was "l33t" because you had to have an invite. Remember that? Google does a fantastic job of creating an artificial buzz around products. They have done it again with Google+ too.
politifact is run by a very liberal newspaper that has an obvious pro democrat/pro Obama bias. They have really stretched it with some of those "promises" just to inflate that figure.
Exactly. But that's just what this is going to turn into.. one big "legalize it, maaan!" festival. Despite what you said.
Obama is not giving the "legalize it" crowd the answers that they want to hear, so they stick their fingers in their ears and ask it louder.
We can't even get alcohol laws right in this country. Why do people think Obama can just wiggle a pen and make marijuana legal in all 50 states? He's said he wanted to leave it up to the states, and even pot friendly California has been seeing what can happen. Clubs wind up crime dens and have been closed down, and really it's done jack shit to curb gang activity. Sorry to break it to you, but the gangs have simply moved on to other markets.
... and get the democrat bloggers all riled up, I wonder how far Righthaven would have made it.
They also sued a bunch of other personal blogs, not just that political website. I hope Righthaven eats it in court and has to pay their legal fees. One of the bloggers they sued is known to me, and he's really been hit hard by it. Democratic Underground? Sure, to a point, but they very easily raised some funds. My friend? Not so easy...
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not a single fuck about us was given that day. But god forbid you forget "Secretary Appreciation Week" or whatever it is. :/
Back to the basement, cube trolls!
What continues to scare me are the numbers of people that still insist how awesome Google services are. Threads about email? "Just switch everything over to Gmail." Hosting? "Use Google Apps, it's awesome." Photos? "Use Picasa.." Phones? "Oh, get an Android phone. Apple is evil."
Google blew past evil and kept on going. They just did it right under everybody's nose.
ah, this group is lead by Dianne Feinstein.
No surprise. Thanks a lot California for not voting her out of office years ago. Ugh.
Exactly. And I think this band sucks. I didn't give a flying turkey about their last youtube video either, and I don't care about this one.
I don't have Chrome installed on this machine, and won't either. Oh well...
ON the other hand, Wal-Mart (at least walmart.com) has a shitload of Linux.
There's a difference between goofy fake name accounts and a nickname, or in the case of a lot of people I know.. "name that identifies me to my friends but I still need to be hidden from the general public."
Friendster was just getting filled with crap..Ironically, Twitter is full of fake accounts, and they can be some rather popular ones.
Google is a complete fucking pile of FAIL when it comes to anything related to customer support. They don't fix spam problems and spammers have been flocking to gmail/googlemail for ages now because Google actively protects them by hiding origin IP headers.
Then they let users add stuff to Google maps, and guess what? IT's becoming a spam hole thanks to the hoards of Avon reps & home "Scentsy" businesses. Even in my sparsely populated area, i'm seeing several worthless mommy-biz entries.
Google stumbles with this.. a lot.
The macminicolo.net folks seem to agree with you on that one.
I think that Apple is still squarely in the market they enjoy - and that isn't big iron.
hmm.
What the hell else is Sean doing with his time? That's what the articles are really missing...
Yet we're always told that illegal immigrants are paying into SS but won't ever get it. Now the H1B group will simply be exempt?
How long before the new "guest worker" program wants the same treatment?
We're going to have millions more *not* paying into the system, and people will act surprised when it fails.
No, he is not.
"Edit: Actually, apparently Alexis had this to say[Gizmodo]:
He is absolutely not a founding member. We acquired his company in December, 6 months after Steve and I launched reddit."
Next time, read the fucking article.
"Switch has apparently investigated alternative power sources such as solar power and the possibility of recycling the heat generated by its equipment into energy, but neither methods are cost-effective or space-efficient enough at the moment."
no new added value. Unless I like a bunch of anime bullshit and cartoons, and childrens programming like the Veggie Tales and stuff. Oh, and B-rated direct to video shit too.
Who do I really blame for this? The greedy motherfuckers at the movie studios. They're the rat bastards we should be directing rage at. Netflix is simply a delivery mechanism.
"See, this is why being from Texas should be a disqualification for the Presidency. This is exactly how people down there do things."
What, that people actually clarify laws and make common sense decisions?
Let me guess, you're in California, huh? That would explain the staggering ignorance.
Or he did.. and it was on US Airways. Their first class in the US is awful.
Good luck getting anything with a peanut in it on most airlines these days. They all yanked them because of our ridiculous fear that children will drop dead if there's a single peanut on the floor. (CDC stats show that the number of people that die from food allergies each year is actually very very low. Even lower for children.. but don't try to get stats past the mommybloggers, for they will all have stories about how their friends kid Kayley dropped dead when someone walked into the room with a pb&j.
and they're using all of the Democrats that they've bought off. Hollywood = Democrat. Democrats = the ones pushing crap laws these days about "copyrights" and making it a felony to have a video camera in a movie theater.
They're not even trying to hide it anymore. Five RIAA lawyers placed in cabinet positions by Obama? FIVE of them. Even Bush didn't obviously suck up to one trade group like this administration has.
I have to agree with you. Aside from "It's not Facebook" and the usual "herp derp Google skeet skeet skeet" reactions, I'm not seeing any huge features in Google+ that would make me want to switch.
The UI isn't that great, and it really is pretty confusing.
I think that in 6 months, we'll see a lot of abandoned profiles.. just like other things in the google deadpool.
I blame Outlook users, mostly.Run into quite a few people (usually managers too..hmm) that act like they simply CANNOT function without Outlook, yet they then claim they're so busy and spend 4 hours a day dealing with email.
Sounds like some people are just slow, inefficient lumps.
"no way to enable catch-all, etc."
Good. No decent host would let you ever use a catch-all these days. All a catch-all email address allows nowadays is spam spam and more spam. My personal mail server rejected just over 10,000 emails yesterday alone. All addressed to (randomcrap)@(mydomain.tld) ... if I had a catch all, I would have received over 10,000 spam/virus/shit emails. Now multiply that by oodles of customers with many other email addresses, and you're catching *millions* of complete shit emails every day.
catch-all = shitpool.
This is what so many geeks USED to do, until somehow gmail came along and it was "l33t" because you had to have an invite. Remember that? Google does a fantastic job of creating an artificial buzz around products. They have done it again with Google+ too.
politifact is run by a very liberal newspaper that has an obvious pro democrat/pro Obama bias. They have really stretched it with some of those "promises" just to inflate that figure.
Exactly. But that's just what this is going to turn into.. one big "legalize it, maaan!" festival. Despite what you said.
Obama is not giving the "legalize it" crowd the answers that they want to hear, so they stick their fingers in their ears and ask it louder.
We can't even get alcohol laws right in this country. Why do people think Obama can just wiggle a pen and make marijuana legal in all 50 states? He's said he wanted to leave it up to the states, and even pot friendly California has been seeing what can happen. Clubs wind up crime dens and have been closed down, and really it's done jack shit to curb gang activity. Sorry to break it to you, but the gangs have simply moved on to other markets.
... and get the democrat bloggers all riled up, I wonder how far Righthaven would have made it.
They also sued a bunch of other personal blogs, not just that political website. I hope Righthaven eats it in court and has to pay their legal fees. One of the bloggers they sued is known to me, and he's really been hit hard by it. Democratic Underground? Sure, to a point, but they very easily raised some funds. My friend? Not so easy...
If it's from Google, it could grind newborn infants and puppies into a slurry and tech bloggers would shower it with love and geek adoration.